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Collective bargaining: Romania shows the way

Romania’s recent law strengthening collective bargaining offers a way forward for the European Union.

Improving job quality is key to addressing labour shortages In the European Union.

Europe’s social-protection schemes are full of holes, affecting the most vulnerable most—but they can be fixed.

The government of Aleksandar Vučić is trying to clean up its image, Lily Lynch writes—without having to clean up its act.

A proposed EU regulation on methane emissions must be strengthened, not diluted, to address a planet on fire.

China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.

The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.

In Europe the struggle by Ukraine has largely been seen as a defence of universal norms. But around the world that is far from universal.

Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.

The ban on deep-sea mining risks losing its traction—and Europe is divided on the issue.

The movement is adapting its strategy to advocate for social climate policies.

If Europe does not wake up to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, it could be complicit in genocide.

A state that protects—and a bulwark for democracy and modernity. Is this, Robert Misik asks, the new paradigm of the democratic left?

The outlines of a new progressive narrative for Europe are emerging amid the smoke from forest fires and the war in Ukraine.

Europe faces many challenges on the road to climate neutrality. Broad civil-society involvement is crucial for getting there.